A less government conservative Republican from Livingston County, MI
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Chairman of LCRP since January 2013

Friday, July 29, 2011

State Senate Redistricting - District 14 (SD-14)

This district was mostly the old 26th district, although made much safer. It was an accidental swing district that was created for Deb Cherry at first. She was given a free pass in 02 and lost the Oakland County portion and won underwhelmingly due to the North Oakland portion. 06 was an easier race in a bigtime dem year. At the top of the ticket, I believe Bush won the old district actually in 2004.

The Flint district had to expand some and it did. Robertson dropped the toughest parts of his district to the Flint district. Mount Morris, Vienna Twp, Clio, Thetford Twp, Forest Twp, Richfield Twp, and Burton all went to the 27th district. Robertson actually ran very well in those areas in 2010. He only lost Mt Morris, Clio, and Burton. I wouldn't count on that as an every election situation, even for a guy who is known as a hard worker who wins tough races.

Robertson did pick up slightly democrat Mundy Twp and the City of Fenton. He picked up swing Holly Twp, and strongly GOP Rose and Highland Twps, as well as Lake Angelus. Giving up Mt Morris Twp and Burton alone tilts this into a GOP leaning district. It's not a safe district, but less vulnerable that it was and will likely only be threatened in a year like 2008.